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Little  Rock,  December  8th,  186i 


General  Orders  i 
No,  45.     ' 


I.  General  Order  No.  41,  current  series,  is  hereby  revoked, 
anil  the  following;  General  Order  substituted  therefor: 

For  the  purpose  ^f  carrying  into  elFect  the  Conscript  Act,  as 
passed  at  the  last  session  of  the  Confederate  Congress,  the  fol- 
lowing regulations  are  adopted  for  the  Trans-Mississippi  de- 
partment: 

1.  Col.  BENJAMIN  F.  DANLEY,  is  hereby  appointed  com- 
:\rANDANT  of  coNSCFU'TS  of  thc  District  of  Arkansas,  which  is 
hereby  sub-tlivided  into  four  divisions. 

2.  Maj.  JOHN  J.  HOUNER,  is  appointed-  enrolling  officer 
of  D'.vision  number  07zr,  composed  of  the  counties  of  Alarion, 
Izard,  Independence,  Jackson,  Woodrwft',  Toinsett,  Mississippi, 
Greene,  Randolph,  Lawrence,  Fulton,  Crittenden,  Craighead, 
Cross,  St.  Francis,  Phillips,  xMonroe  and  White.  He  will  es- 
tablish a  Camp  of  Instruction  at  Jacksonport. 

3.  Major  JAMES  H.  SPARKS,  is  appointed  enrolling  offi- 
cer of  Division  number  In-o,  composed  of  the  counties  of  Sebas- 
tian, Scott,  Yell,  Perry,  Conway,  ^'an  Buren,  Tope,  Johnson, 
Franklin,  Crawford,  Washington,  Madison,  Newton,  Searcy, 
Carroll  and  Benton.  He  will  establish  a  Camp  of  Instruction 
at  Dardanelle. 

4.  Maj.  JOHNMcNALLY,  is  applointed  enrolling  officer  of 
Division  number  ifircc,  composed  of  the  counties  of  Arkansas, 
Desha,  Chicot,  Drew,  Ashley,  JefiePffon,  Praiiie,  Pulaski  aitd 
Saline.     He  will  establi.-h  a  Camp  of  Instruction  at  Pine  Bluff. 

.■>.  iMajor  JAMES  T.  ELLIOTT,  is  appointed  enrolling  officer 
of  Division  number  /b?^',  composed  of  thc  counties  of  Ouachita, 
Union,  Calhoun,  Bradley,  Dallas,  'Hot  Spring,  Clark,  Pike, 
Sevier,  Hempstead,  Columbia,  Lafayette,  Polk  and  Montgomery. 
He  will  establish  a  Camp  of  Instruction  at  Camden. 

(».  Thc  several  Camps  of  Instruction  will  be  under  the  charge 
and  direction  of  the  several  division  enrolling  officers,  who  will 
appoint  one  enrolling  officer  in  each  of  tiie  counties  of  their 
several  divisions. 

7.  There  shall  be  assigned  to  each  division,  three  surgeons, 
wlio  will  constitute  a  board  of  examination  for  said  division; 
and  one  or  more  of  whom  may  act  at  any  place  of  rendezvous 
therein.     They  will  be  stationed  severally  as  follows: 

1st  Division — at  Smithv'lle,  Lawrence  county;  Mt.  Olive, 
Izard  county,  and  Searcy,  White  county,  Arkansas. 


2d  Division — at  Jasper,  Newton  county;  Fort  Smith,  Sebas- 
tian county;  and  Clinton,  Van  Buven  county,  Arlcansas. 

3d  Division — at  Little  Rock.  Pulaski  county;  Hamburg,  Ash- 
Icy  county;  and  South  Bend,  xVrkansas  county,  Arkansas. 

1th  Division — at  Washington,  Hempstead  county;  Princeton, 
Dallas  county;  and  Muifreesboro,  ]'ike  county,  Arkansa:^. 

8.  The  county  enrolling  ollicer  will  caucc  to  be  enrolled  all 
white  male  persons,  between  eighteen  and  forty  years  of  age, 
liable  to  perform  military  duly,  whom  he  may  find  in  his  county; 
and  will  cause  to  be  entered  uj)on  a  roll  prepared  lor  that  pur- 
pose, their  names,  ages,  {\}ne  of  enrollment,  place  of  nativity, 
and  date  of  their  leaving  their  homes  for  the  Camp  of  Instruc- 
tion. And  will  also  note  opposite  the  name  of  each  one  found 
not  subject  to  military  duty,  the  cause  thereof;  |ind  forward 
duplicate  rolls  to  his  division  enrolling  officer,  one  of  which 
^vill  be  forwarded  by  the  division  enrolling  oflicer,  to  the  com- 
mandant of  conscripts. 

9.  The  county  enrollingofFicers  will  notify  the  examining  board, 
or  any  one  of  them,  of  the  place  of  rendezvous  fixed  by  them 
for  the  conscripts  of  their  several  counties,  and  the  examining 
boft.rd  of  surgeons,  or  any  one  of  them,  will,  by  publi'-ation  in 
eome  newspaper  in  their  division,  or  by  notices  posted  up  in 
the  county,  give  ten  days  notice  of  the  time  \Vhen  they  will 
attend  said  rendezvous,  and  will  then  and  there  examine  said 
conscripts;  and  such  ))ersons  as  shall  be  found  incapable  of 
bearing  arms,  on  account  of  mental  or  phytical  incapacity,  by 
such  examining  surgeon,  shall  be  by  him  reported  to  the  board 
of  examination,  who  shall  determine  the  (juestions  of  exeinp- 
Iton,  and  grant  certificates  thereof;  .said  certificates  specifying 
whether  the  incapacity  is  temporary  or  permanent;  and  if  per- 
manent, the  party  shall  be  exempt  from  future  examination, 
unless  specially  ordered  by  the  board.  li\  cases  where  the 
incapacity  is  temporary,  or  where  an  enrolled  person  cannot 
attend  the  place  of  rendezvous  on  account  of  sickness,  and 
f-hall  send  to  the  examining  surgeon  a  certificate  specifying  the 
cause  of  absence,  and  its  probable  duration,  from  some  respec- 
table physician,  resident  in  the  county  in  which  the  rendezvous 
is  situ.Hted,  the  examining  board  or  surgeon  shall  send  such  cer- 
tificates to  the  commandfmt  of  the  camp  of  instruction  of  his 
division,  and  if  the  person  mentioned  therein  sball  not  report 
liimself  for  examination,  at  the  said  camp,  within  a  reasonable 
period,  or  send  to  the  commandant  of  the  camp  a  renewal  of 
the  certificate  showing  his  continued  disability,  he  shall  be 
deemed  ai!sf.nt  avitiiout  lmave. 

II.  The  standard  of  bodily  capacity  shall  be  that  established 
by  General  Order  No.  58,  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's 
office,  as  modified,  viz: 

1.  Blindness,  excessive  deafness,  and  permanent  lameness, 
or  great  deformity,  are  obvious  reasons  for  exemption. 


2.  Confirmed  consumption,  large  incurable  ulcers,  and  chronic 
conta'jious  di?ea.<es  of  the  skin,  are  causes  for  exemption. 

3.  Single  reducible  hernia,  the  Irss  of  an  eye  or  several 
fingers,  will  not  incapacitate  the  subject  for  the  performance  oj 
military  duty. 

4.  A  certiHcate  of  disability  of  a  con^:cript,  given  by  a  pri- 
vate physician,  will  not  be  considered,  unless  alfidavit  is  made 
that  the  conscrij)t  is  confined  to  bed,  or  that  his  health  and  life 
would  be  endangered  by   removal  to  the  j)Iace  of  rendezvous. 

III.  Afttr.=uch  examination  shall  be  had  by  the  board  of 
examiners,  the  cnutity  enrolling  ofiicer  will  complete  the  roll 
by  discharging  all  found  j)ermanently,  physically  or  mentally 
unable  to  ptrlbrm  military  duty  by  the  examining  board,  and 
all  wl'io  may  be  entitled  to  be  discharged  or  exempt  from  other 
causes;  and  will  cause  the  men  enrolled  to  be  collected  at  some 
convenient  place,  thence  to  be  forwarded  to  the  Camp  of  In- 
stiuction  of  their  proj)er  divi.~ion.  and  delivered,  with  the  dupli- 
cate rolls,  to  the  counnanding  olliccr. 

IV.  Applications  for  exemption  must  be  made  to  the  county 
enrolling  otlicers,  who  will  act  thereon,  and  forvvard  the  same, 
with  their  action  icndorsed  thereon,  to  the  commandant  of  con- 
serif)  ts. 

y .  The  exemption  act  does  not  anthori/e  the  discharge  of 
any  one  enrolled,  or  in  service  prior  to  the  1 1th  day  of  October. 
18(5".2;  and  the  fact  that  a  pei'son  has  been  discharged  from  ser-- 
vice  for  phyr=ical  disability,  or  other  cause,  does  not,  of  itself, 
exempt  from  enrollment  as  a  conscript,  except  in  cases  of 
foreigners  not  domiciled  and  of  those  persons  who  have  fur- 
nished substitutes. 

VI.  All  the  laws  and  regulations  applicable  to  descrteks,  shall" 
be  applied  to  such  conscripts  as  full  to  repair  to  the  place  of 
rendezvous  for  enrollment,  or  who  shall  desert  after  enrollment. 

V^Il.  At  eAich  camp  of  Instruction  there  will  be  statioiied  an 
officer  of  the  Quartermaster,  Subsistence  and  Medical  Depart- 
ment, who  will  be  under,  and  receive  orders  from  the  com- 
mander of  the  Camp. 

VIII.  The  county  enrolling  officer  will  moke  timely  requisi- 
tions on  the  cominar.dcrs  of  the  camp  of  iiir^truction,  for  trans- 
portation and  subsistence  for  their  men  from  the  coujity  "(|n- 
de7,v6us  to  the  camp  of  instruction. 

IX.  The  commanders  of  the  Districts  of'  Louisiaxa  and  Texas, 
will  conform  as  nearly  as  practicable  to  this  order,  and  prepare 
the  necessary  regulations  to  carry  the  same  into  eOect  in  their 
several  districts. 

By  command  of  Major  Gen"l.  IJolmhs.  '' 

S.  S.  ANDERSON, 

Ass'l  Adfi.   General. 


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